Florida was cold

Back to work, again. It took me 3 days of feeling like I was in lala land after returning to Iowa last week. A week in Orlando, another week in Miami and 3 days in Kansas. Add to that some interesting side trips and .... I could get used to living like that!!!

I was excited to make contact with a cousin I had not seen in 55 years (she hadn't changed a bit), enjoyed playing with my 2 grandchildren (my goodness Emily has grown tall since last year), visited the town and battleground where my mother's Great Grandfather (Samuel Kee) was killed during the Civil War (Iuka Mississippi) and finally found the place where I had bought that awesome ham 25 years ago in Arkansas (St Joes in the Ozark Mountains.) I've been trying to remember where we had gotten it, and took a different road home each year trying to find it. The Ham is just as good as I remembered it. Yea!!

Don located a couple Allis tractors he had seen sitting in a grove a couple years ago in Kansas, so felt he had a wonderful vacation as well. It is his and Fred's new baby, but they have not committed to buying the big brother yet.
India graduates from High School as well as Junior College this spring. Fred plans on taking India's graduation car down on a trailer and bringing back the new baby tractor when they go for the celebration. The tractor is almost in Oklahoma/Missouri but actually on the Kansas line. It will just be too bad if he feels the need to buy the 'big brother' Alles tractor as well, when he only has room for the baby on the car trailer. Little boys grow up and their toys just get bigger.